THE GRASS PLOVER. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER PRINGA BARTRAMIA. 



Description. " The grass plover is twelve 

 inches long, and twenty-one in extent; the bill 

 is an inch and a half long, slightly bent down- 

 wards, and wrinkled at the base, the upper man- 

 dible black on its ridge, the lower, as well as the 

 edge of the upper, of a fine yellow ; front, stripe 

 over the eye, neck and breast, pale ferruginous, 

 marked with small streaks of black, which, on 

 the lower part of the breast, assume the form of 

 arrow-heads; crown, black, the plumage slightly 

 skirted with whitish ; chin, orbit of the eye, 

 whole belly and vent, pure white ; hind head 

 and neck above ferruginous, minutely streaked 

 with black ; back and scapulars, black, the for- 

 mer slightly skirted with ferruginous, the latter 

 with white; tertials, black, bordered with white; 

 primaries, plain black ; shaft of the exterior 

 quill, snowy, its inner vane elegantly pectinated 

 with white; secondaries pale. brown, spotted on 

 their outer vanes with black, and tipped with 



